Sunday the 2nd was much the same as Saturday, got up and didn't feel too bad, but once again in the afternoon felt rough and went to bed for a while to try and warm up, watched the rugby and that night decided to stay up and watch the Super Bowl, quite a waste of time if I'm honest but it's the first time I've had the opportunity to watch it so made the most of it, pity I had to get up early in the morning to go to the GP. At the GP I was to pick up the prescription for my antibiotics and hopefully they will do the trick of getting rid of this, while I was there I also got my sick line for another couple of weeks, which I will have hopefully got the all clear of the lymphoma and be able to get back to work again.
Got soaked again which I'm sure will not help with things but not much I could have done about this, but when I got home I got changed into something more comfortable and relaxed for the rest of the day. Didn't feel up for going to the quiz and as I wanted a quiet couple of weeks I didn't.
Tuesday morning I woke up with coughing and a sore back and lay around for a few hours, which I'm sure was a terrible idea, if I had have just got up it would have cleared much faster, as when I did finally get up it did. I had to take a trip into work to hand in the sick line then send it off to ESA afterwards, the walk seemed to do me the world of good though felt much better on the way there, but on the way home I just wanted to get home as soon as possible and when I got back to the house I was having my hot/cold thing again and jumped into bed for a bit to try and spread the heat and fell asleep for a while too.
Similarly on Tuesday I woke up about 6 again coughing and a sore back, but this time I did get up and that was great, got rid of the sore back, but the coughing continued for the rest of the day and had my hot/cold thing once again in the afternoon, had another shower which seemed to help spread the heat, my appetite today has been pretty bad too, barely ate anything and didn't even want my normal breakfast (cereal) and ended up just having a banana and apple, no lunch and a couple of sausage rolls for dinner. Had a pretty early night as well.
Thursday morning I didn't have my sore back but I was still coughing, the coughing seems to be getting worse, I hope it's just my body trying to fight the infection and a sign of getting better rather than it getting worse. Thursday was another bit of a waste of a day doing nothing but sitting around reading and watching films and didn't eat much again today either. Had an early night and my body was more than willing to comply, I honestly think I could lie around sleeping all day and still have a good night's sleep.
Friday morning I was up at the Royal for my PET scan, brought my kindle and got there early as I always do and they seen me early, there must have been a cancelation or something. But I was told I had to lie still and wasn't allowed to read because of the injection I got. I didn't mind it, it gave me an hour to lie there and fall asleep again and once into the PET scan slept for another 20 mins, flew in because of it. Was still coughing a fair amount today and chest was tight, reminiscent of back in May when it all started. I decided to walk into town afterwards and have a nosey around, didn't stay long and then walked home, everything seemed to feel fine apart from the cough. That is until later in the afternoon when I started to feel the glands all block up again and my head getting sore and tired and ended up in bed again and fell asleep until tea time. In the evening watched the Ulster match and made another stop motion, then watched Another Earth in the Insyplex afterwards, a bit of reading before bed then out cold.
Barometer off the scale
Had a good sleep again tonight, I must really need my sleep as it's all I can seem to do, that is if my back doesn't get sore or the cough start up too much, but if I change sides that I'm lying on I can really feel the lunges shifting and a bit of pain in them, also feels a bit like I'm breathing fluid, which is unpleasant. Felt pretty ok for most of the day so far, apart from a period before dinner where I had to go to bed for a while and had a bit of a nap. In the evening I was supposed to be going out to meet up with some people from twitter but I was in no way well enough to go and I'm sure if I did they would probably catch something off me, or well, I hope they would as that would prove that it is a bug and not the lymphoma. But I didn't take that chance either way and stayed in and wrote this, now I just need to find something to watch, not that I don't have plenty it's just finding the right thing for my frame of mind this evening.
I hope the ones that went out have/had a good night and aren't too rough in the morning.
This week hasn't helped settle my mind as to what is wrong with me, the antibiotics haven't seemed to have done anything apart from making my cough worse and I am worse now than when I started on them. The symptoms are way too similar to how I was feeling in May, but then I did have a virus then so it could just be another one... I get the scan results back next Friday so it is going to be a long week waiting for them to come back to possibly rule out one thing (the lymphoma) but then if it is the virus, I have no immune system to get rid of it and if it is an infection antibiotics don't seem to be doing the job. Long week is gonna be long.